[ [link removed] ]Protect sacred Native sites. Don't raise the Shasta Dam.

The petition to the Department of the Interior reads:
"Protect sacred Native sites, wildlife and endangered species. Do not
raise the Shasta Dam."

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Dear Jack,

[ [link removed] ]Protect sacred Native
sites. Don't raise the
Shasta Dam.

It's yet another shady deal by a corrupt Trump administration official to
benefit corporate interests.

Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, who is already under federal
investigation for numerous ethical violations, is pushing forward a
dangerous plan to raise the height of the Shasta Dam in Northern
California to help a former lobbying client.^1

Raising the height of the Shasta Dam would cause untold devastation to
sacred Native ceremonial sites, erasing the cultural history of the
Winnemem Wintu people, as well as threaten endangered species and wildlife
in the region. We must demand that the Department of the Interior
immediately drop its plan to raise the dam.

[ [link removed] ]Tell the Department of the Interior: Protect sacred lands. Don't raise
the Shasta Dam. Click here to sign the petition.

When construction of Shasta Dam was completed in 1945, it flooded the
ancestral homelands of the Winnemem Wintu and devastated the healthy
McCloud River salmon runs on which the tribe depended. Raising the dam
further would double down on an 80-year-old mistake that never should have
been made in the first place.

What's more, staff biologists from Sec. Bernhardt's own Fish and Wildlife
Service raised major environmental concerns about the Shasta Dam project,
science that he continues to ignore to favor his former lobbying client,
the Westlands Water District, the state's largest water entity that is
mainly run by some of California's wealthiest farmers. In a 215-page
report, scientists found that raising the dam would threaten the bald
eagle, the northern spotted owl, the Shasta snow-wreath, a delicate white
flower, and cut off routes for spawning salmon, which could devastate the
salmon population and the Pacific Coast fishing industry.^2

Bernhardt and Westlands Water District are pulling out all the stops to
ensure this massive giveaway to corporate agriculture will go through.
According to our allies at Earthjustice who are fighting the Trump
administration in court over the project, "Westlands stands to gain more
water from the project to deliver to its large corporate agriculture
constituents in the southern part of California’s Central Valley, hundreds
of miles from the dam. Westlands is using all its power to make this
happen."^3

Pressure to stop the Shasta Dam project is working. After lawsuits brought
by the state of California and others to stop the project won in court,
Westlands halted the initial steps to begin its environmental assessments,
but it recently claimed it hasn't abandoned the project. The Interior
Department still expects that construction will begin this December.
That's why we must speak out now to demand that the Interior Department
stop all plans to raise the Shasta Dam. Click the link below to sign the
petition:

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Thank you for speaking out.

Heidi Hess, Co-Director
[ [link removed] ]CREDO Action from Working Assets

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References:

 1. Coral Davenport, "[ [link removed] ]The Interior Secretary Wants to Enlarge a Dam. An
Old Lobbying Client Would Benefit." The New York Times, Sept. 28,
2019.
 2. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service San Francisco Bay - Delta Fish and
Wildlife Office, "[ [link removed] ]Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Report for the
Shasta Lake Water Resources Investigation," November 2015.
 3. Stacey Geis, "[ [link removed] ]Raising Shasta Dam Would Harm Many to Benefit a
Few," Earthjustice, May 15, 2019.

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